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A northern Iowa farmer has been given six months in prison for selling corn that was pledged as collateral on federal Farm Service Agency loans of more than $196,000.
The Hoosier state has 87 percent of corn and 91 percent of soybeans out of the ground, but this year didn’t come without its weather extremes.
A refinery designed to make ethanol from cornstalks, leaves and cobs — not the grain itself — opened Friday in central Iowa, the culmination of a $225 million construction project and millions more invested in its engineering and design.
Bernie Sanders’ admiration for corn-based fuel is winning him some praise in unusual places.
A nationally televised show recreates the near-tragedy of a farmer trapped in a silo of corn.
This past Saturday while much of the nation was tuning into the epic Final Four matchup between Wisconsin and Kentucky, there was another nail biter on television playing out in an Iowa grain bin.
The Iowa Department of Transportation is paying dozens of Iowa farmers to leave rows of corn that can create snow barriers along highways.
Recent heavy rainfall has washed away or at least lessened drought conditions in swaths of Nebraska and Iowa, according to a report released Thursday.
The owners of Smith Family Farms in Rochester, Indiana took a risk and diversified to find a way to be collection point for high oleic soybeans.AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben talks with Luke Smith and Kevin Smith.
Iowa State University’s Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm now is in its 40th year of operation on 260 acres near Nashua, and every year, it brings new ideas, as well as crops, organizers say.